$500 Smart Home Setup + Automations

Can you set up a complete smart home for $500 or less? …Yes! There are actually several affordable options and I’ll show you what I recommend.
LINKS (affiliate):

–Amazon Echo ZigBee Hub Setup–

(also good options)

–Aqara Gateway Setup–

(also good options)

–SmartThings Setup–

(also good options)

–Home Assistant Setup–

(also good options)

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0:00 Intro
0:23 Hub
1:22 Sensors
3:23 Lights
5:38 Buttons
6:57 Doorbells
7:54 Outlets
8:51 Extras
9:37 Bringing it all together
10:53 Denied…

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Rinse Repeat by DivKid

The End by EVA

[SmartHomeSolver]

Can anyone think the word ZigBee in their head and NOT hear Paul Hibbert's voice?

[kevintothecore]

Absolutely loved this video! Great content, Reed. I switched to Home Assistant not-so-recently and realized a lot of my devices are cloud-based. I would love a video just like this one for beginning-to-advance smart home automators for great local device alternatives. Thanks!

[scottv]

I love your videos. When I start talking home automations my wife rolls her eyes, until she watched a few of your videos over my shoulder. I think her approval limit increased just by watching.

[letsgoiowa]

Wow, I got almost ALL of these exact recommendations! I know that I can always trust what you say because you do the research right and don't lead us astray.

[midnightbass]

Its always a good day when you post a video

[Dazdigo]

I would recommend going with the Amcrest AD410 over the Ring doorbells since they can integrate with home assistant and you can even add the door cam from it to an NVR if you have one.

[alanjones]

Using Zigbee or similar will also take load off WiFi. Since starting using Smart devices I have had to upgrade my Wifi as the original router only supports 15 devices.That went very quickly with using smart downlights not just a single smart switch. The family had 7 phones, tablets, laptops and a Ring plus Echo before we started. So a few smart sockets killed it. It soon takes over. Stage two I used Ikea lamps with their own hubs and buttons. I am now watching your advice.

[chrisw]

You may have talked aout these before, but I haven't seen it. And it is a little niche, but Kaufman Home Automation makes the Kauf Bulb - A very nice, Bright, RGBWW (warm and cold white) bulb designed for Home Assistant. They also make an energy monitoring plug that works great! I have it monitoring and controlling a plug-in heater for our bedroom in the winter. The regular 'smart' thermostat reduces the house temperature at night, and the heater keeps the bedroom (and adjacent bath) comfortable. Home Assistant is set to shut the bedroom heat off a half hour before the house heat goes back up in the morning. Without that, the bedroom got a bit toasty in the morning (typical cheap heater with slop-action thermostat).

[andrewcbartlett]

I love that approved/denied process you have over there!

[arron]

“HOME ASSISTANT” I love the both of you Guys haha. Your channels are great and it’s great to get both the UK And USA versions as they are both so different and being from the UK, having Paul show what is available over here is great

[ihartroxii]

It will be interesting when thread comes out to see a video similar to this with budget friendly options so that you can use any speaker assistant whether it be Google, Alexa or HomeKit.

[McGavin]

Costco has Feit (Tuya) WiFi Switches are my favorite, and they are only like $13 each. They usualy come in 2 packs or 3 packs. Led indicator, dimmer, and the newest vetsion has a step down feature so when for example light is set to 60%, when you turn onoff it dims up until 60%, or down until off. Very nice compared to the older versions that would go full 100% when turning on then adjust to 60%. Not a fun to be blinded temporarily when you expected 60% brightness.

[russcalder]

Great video. I’d love to see a version of this that doesn’t use Amazon devices or rely on the cloud in anyway.

[ronm]

Thanks Reed, great ideas and Paul's voice was in my head as soon as I heard "Oh the ZigBee".

[Tim]

I didn't learn something new today, but I still really enjoy your videos.

[nateh]

I'm using kasa 3-way with only one changed. Works perfectly. There is an option when installing to be a single or both changed.

[mikefrost]

When the BroadLink button works it’s great, and the set is really easy. But mine tends to lose connection quite often which is a shame. It can be pot luck if it decides to work or not. The hub and router are in the same room as well.

[ottomarwin]

Hubitat as your hub and most aqara works direcly, plus hubitat can feed almost every device to the echo dot, everything except my heiman smoke detectors.

So Hubitat hib = great bang for your buck

[varistybc]

I have never felt so close to one of these videos before but that outro with your wife denying everything is my smart home experience as well just not for that expensive of things lol.

[burger]

I bought echo show 8 and ring doorbell wired for 65€ about 4 months ago and this combo is on amazon every holiday, prime day etc.